FuJo: The Institute for Future Media and Journalism

FuJo: The Institute for Future Media and Journalism

FuJo is an innovative and experimental space for journalism and media research. It provides a platform where journalists, communication scholars, social and data scientists, software engineers and philosophers can come together. We will test thinking, create new formats, bounce new ideas and technologies and research best practice.

The Institute brings the experience and reach of DCU’s top rated School of Communications and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences together with researchers from the the DCU arms of the SFI research centres, the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the ADAPT Centre for Content Creation, along with the Institute of Ethics and the Centre for Cloud Computing.

FuJo will provide an experimental lab space where journalists, engineers, philosophers and data scientists can come together, create new formats, develop new ideas and technologies and research best practice. The institute brings together the best of the old and the new and is a collaboration between DCU’s top ranked School of Communications together with the DCU arms of the SFI research centres, the Insight Centre of Data Analytics and the ADAPT centre for content creation. The School of Law and Government, the Institute of Ethics and the Centre for cloud Computing are all here too.

“Open data initiatives are making data-driven journalism not only possible but a vital part of a democratic society.”

We all know that the last decade has seen a revolution in journalism. The power of technology has put news production in the hands of the consumer, making User Generated Content a vital aspect of on-the-ground media coverage. Social media has created the “people formerly known as the audience”.